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• History of quantitative linguistics
  ...the observations and to find a mathematical formula for the corresponding function – the famous “Zipf’s Law”. Zipf and others observed the same kind o ...siderations in German QL. He set up, among others, a mathematical model of word length distributions and performed various investigations into language, li
  7 KB (952 words) - 12:44, 5 October 2007
• Irony
  The word 'irony' derives from Greek ''eirōneía'' (cf. also Latin: ''ironia''), whi Winner and Gardner (1993: 429) state that "the primary function of irony is [...] to show something about the speaker". There is a large ra
  13 KB (1,992 words) - 20:32, 4 July 2014
• Cohesion
  ...1), the set of given sentences can be identified as a text, because “[t]he word text is used in linguistics to refer to any passage, spoken or written, of ...ludes the text (the linguistic environment), reference takes on a cohesive function” (HALLIDAY & HASAN 1994:226f.).
  22 KB (3,425 words) - 17:49, 26 June 2010
• Tomislav Maretić
  ...counted separately, depending on whether it fulfils a vowel or a consonant function ''prst vs ruka''.<br> ...ls makes it “weeker” – meaning that it is more or less easy to pronounce a word. In this respect, Maretić then compared the results obtained with similar
  17 KB (2,311 words) - 13:14, 16 August 2007
• Kopf
  ...Kornfilt, Mixed Extended Projections. In: R. Borsley (Hg.), The Nature and Function of Syntactic Categories. San Diego 2000, 101–131. *A. M. Di Sciullo & E. Williams, On the Definition of Word. Cambridge, Mass. 1987.
  9 KB (1,251 words) - 12:54, 9 August 2014
• Jerzy Woronczak
  where <math>f_i</math> is the frequency of the i-th word-form, and N the length of the sample¹ . ...tions for the expected size of the vocabulary of a text with a length of N word-forms and for the expected number of words with an assigned frequency (''ib
  26 KB (3,899 words) - 14:02, 28 November 2007
• S.-Y. Kuroda/publications
  1983b. A remark on certain constructions with the word naka in Japanese. In K. Inoue, E. Kobayashi, and R. Linde (eds.), Issues in 1994a. On function and structure of Japanese causatives: a summary. Proceedings of 1994 Nanzan
  18 KB (2,647 words) - 12:19, 11 July 2021
• Tsez
  The name derives from the Tsez word for ''[[eagle]]''. ...not phonemic but occurs automatically before non-pharyngealized vowels in word-initial position.
  50 KB (8,020 words) - 17:31, 2 March 2018

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